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When A Coal Mine Shuts Down, Locals Get The Shaft
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What Happens When a Mine Closes Down?
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An old coal mine leaves a huge mess. Thousands of miles of creeks and streams are affected by acid mindranage. In mountaintop removal mining you have just these giant piles of rock that are basically what's left of the mountain when it's been kind of blown up. You're actually just kind of blowing the top off a mountain and then kind of dumping it into the nearest valley. And so where before you had a forest that had things growing on it now you've just kind of like the surface of the moon or something.
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